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De-Lovely (3/10)

April 18th, 2005

I’ve had De-Lovely at my house for a while because something inside me was telling me not to watch it. I can’t even remember what prompted me to rent it in the first place. I should have listened to my inner voice and sent the movie back. De-Lovely is basically a biopic about the famouse composer, Cole Porter (Kevin Kline), and his struggle between the love for his wife (Ashley Judd) and other men.

It’s not that this is necessarily a really bad movie or that I don’t like musicals, or even that I don’t really like to see movies about gay men. It’s the fact that those things have all been put together very badly into a movie. This movie is no Chicago or Moulin Rouge - two of the best modern musicals of our time. I think the intent of this movie was to showcase Porter’s music through the marketing of popular singers. The story never really went anywhere with the gay aspect, but they definitely wanted you to know it was there. And the ending took FOREVER to wind down. The moral of this story - I should trust my instincts.

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